Run more than a handful of menu bar apps on a notched MacBook and macOS silently hides the rest — they're running, but you can't see or click them. Tray Overflow shows every hidden item with its real icon and opens its real menu in one click.
7-day full-featured trial · No account, no card · macOS 14+ (Apple silicon)
The notch didn't shrink your menu bar apps — it just hid them.
It's still running. macOS pushed it behind the notch, where it can't be seen or clicked. You only find out when something breaks.
Killing background apps to free menu bar slots is not a workflow. Your tools should all fit — or at least all be reachable.
Most utilities re-draw approximations. Tray Overflow shows each item's real, live icon and opens the app's actual menu — not a lookalike.
A native, lightweight picker that treats hidden items exactly like visible ones.
The picker shows each item's genuine menu bar glyph, captured live with Apple's ScreenCaptureKit — Wi-Fi looks like Wi-Fi, your VPN looks like your VPN.
One click opens the item's actual menu, right where you clicked — full functionality, not a screenshot or a re-implementation.
An optional Hidden Bar-style divider lets you tuck away items you rarely use — they stay one click away in the picker instead of hogging the bar.
Drag-reorder your actual macOS menu bar items from a simple list — no more ⌘-dragging tiny icons and hoping for the best.
Summon the picker from anywhere with a keyboard shortcut. Hands stay on the keys; hidden items stay reachable.
Developer ID signed and notarized by Apple, with seamless Sparkle auto-updates. No accounts, no telemetry, nothing phoning home.
From download to a fully reachable menu bar in three steps.
Open the DMG, drag to Applications, and grant the Accessibility permission macOS asks for — that's what lets Tray Overflow open other apps' menus.
The picker drops down under your menu bar showing everything the notch — or your divider — is hiding, live icons and all.
Its real menu opens instantly, exactly as if the icon had been visible all along. That's it — that's the app.
Try everything free for 7 days — no account, no card, no nagging. Keep it if it earns its place.
Yours forever. Less than one month of a typical subscription.
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On notched MacBooks, macOS simply doesn't draw menu bar items that would collide with the camera housing — there's no overflow UI at all. The apps keep running; their icons become unreachable. Tray Overflow is that missing overflow UI.
Accessibility (required): this is how Tray Overflow finds menu bar items and opens their real menus — it's the standard macOS API for that, and the reason the app can't be sandboxed or sold on the App Store. Screen Recording (optional): only used to capture each item's real menu bar icon for the picker. Skip it and the picker shows app icons instead. No data leaves your Mac either way.
No. The picker displays each item's live, genuine glyph and clicking one triggers the item's own menu via the system Accessibility API. You interact with the real thing.
Yes — enable the optional divider and drag items behind it, Hidden Bar-style. Hidden items disappear from the bar but stay one click (or one hotkey) away in the picker, with their real icons.
macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later on an Apple silicon Mac. It's useful on any Mac with a crowded menu bar, notch or not.
The trial is 7 days, fully featured, with no account and no card. Buying gets you a license key by email within seconds; paste it into the app (menu → License) and you're done. One key activates up to 3 Macs, and you can deactivate a Mac yourself to free a slot.
Full refund within 14 days of purchase, no questions required — see the refund policy. Purchases are processed by Dodo Payments as merchant of record.
App Store apps must be sandboxed, and sandboxed apps can't use the Accessibility API that makes Tray Overflow work. Instead, it's Developer ID signed and notarized by Apple, and updates itself with the same Sparkle updater trusted by hundreds of Mac apps.
Download the free trial now — you'll see every hidden menu bar item in under a minute.
7-day trial · One-time $9.99 · 3 Macs · 14-day refunds